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Author ocean-city
Recipients ocean-city
Date 2009-06-03.02:19:23
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Message-id <1243995570.35.0.0241749249605.issue6183@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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test_time fails on VC6 with following message.

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FAIL: test_strptime (__main__.TimeTestCase)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test_time.py", line 246, in <module>
    test_main()
  File "test_time.py", line 243, in test_main
    support.run_unittest(TimeTestCase, TestLocale)
  File "e:\python-dev\py3k\lib\test\support.py", line 879, in run_unittest
    _run_suite(suite)
  File "e:\python-dev\py3k\lib\test\support.py", line 854, in _run_suite
    result = runner.run(suite)
  File "e:\python-dev\py3k\lib\unittest.py", line 1490, in run
    result.printErrors()
  File "e:\python-dev\py3k\lib\unittest.py", line 1451, in printErrors
    self.printErrorList('FAIL', self.failures)
  File "e:\python-dev\py3k\lib\unittest.py", line 1458, in printErrorList
    self.stream.writeln("%s" % err)
  File "e:\python-dev\py3k\lib\unittest.py", line 1367, in writeln
    self.write(arg)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'cp932' codec can't encode character '\x93' in
position 453:
 illegal multibyte sequence


Here is quotation from 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fe06s4ak%28VS.71%29.aspx

> Note   Before this version of Visual C++, the documentation described
> the format parameter of wcsftime as having the datatype const wchar_t
> *, but the actual implementation of the format datatype was const
> char *. In this version, the implementation of the format datatype
> has been updated to reflect the previous and current documentation, 
> that is: const wchar_t *.


Can I apply attached patch? Thank you.
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2009-06-03 02:19:31ocean-citysetrecipients: + ocean-city
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